MEPHISTOPHELES, OR THE BOW
Heading east toward Bryce Canyon on Utah’s scenic Highway 12 one passes through Red Canyon. Most people drive right past in a hurry to get to Bryce and they fail to see some wonderful easily accessible landscapes. Short trails head into the back country filled with hoodoos and the bright red rocks which give the canyon its name. Dust from the red rocks is everywhere and the dry climate preserves dead trees for many many years. Someone has said that the dessicated juniper tree trunks one finds in these canyons may be several hundred years old. I like to think of this gentleman as an embodiment of the ageless representative of the underworld making his courtly bow and revealing the fires of hell of his true personality.
Copyright 2009 by William Tenney. All photography, artwork, images, and sound recordings on this site are the property of William Tenney.
